Generally install the version of a mod compatible with the highest Expansion Pack you have installed. The Stuff Packs throw a slight monkey wrench in the works though. If you have a Stuff Pack installed that was released after your highest Expansion Pack you might need a different mod version...

Here's a list of the order the Expansions came out and then the SPs and which EP they are based on. For the Stuff Packs, you need to use mods for the EP in parenthesis unless you have a higher EP than that installed.

ExpansionsUniversityNightlifeOpen for BusinessPetsSeasonsBon VoyageFree TimeApartment Life

So...if you have the Pets or any higher EPs, no SPs except M&G Stuff will affect your mods since they are all based on OFB or Pets. If you only have Nightlife (or Deluxe or whatever) and you add Ikea, you'd then need to use Pets versions of mods instead of Nightlife versions. Get it? Good.

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Thanks, I appreciate that. I have a question, though. Since I have Double Deluxe, are there some hacks or items that still will run only on Nightlife and not OFB or does the OFB engine in Celebration Stuff override NL in everything? Is there some OFB stuff that WON"T work?

Here's a little suggestion. I keep reading about people having trouble finding a bad hack or mod or whatever, and I had that trouble, so in my download folder I created some new folders called Test, like "Hack test" "Object Test" and so on, so when I download something new, it goes in the appropriate "test" folder, and play the game. This way, if there's no problem I can move it to the appropriate regular folder, or just to downloads, and if there's a problem, I only have a few files to check, and not 2 or 3 thousand, and I know exactly where to find it.

Deluxe and Double Deluxe don't always follow the normal rules so some mods designed for OFB may not work with DD. That having been said, you should look for OFB mods as, in theory, DD uses the more up-to-date OFB engine.

Since your latest expansion pack is Free Time and you don't have M&G, then you need the Free Time version of whatever mods you install. Obviously, since you don't have Bon Voyage, you should avoid any mods that are specifically related to that EP.

Pets is definitely not the correct option.

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"All the world's a Neighbourhood, and all the men and women merely Sims." ZephyrZodiac with apologies to Willie Waggledagger.

I have all of them downloaded,( I have all Stuff and expansion packs.) the latest one is bon voyage. after I installed bonvoyage my teen sims ( who were not prego) could not go to college. So i un-installed the inteen....which one do i download now for them to work? would it be the bonvoyage one?

If you have all expansions, then although Bon Voyage may be the last one you bought, it isn't the most recent, which is Apartment Life. No modder can know what order you, personally, installed your expansions in! So, if you have AL, then you need mods which were made or updated for AL.

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"All the world's a Neighbourhood, and all the men and women merely Sims." ZephyrZodiac with apologies to Willie Waggledagger.

I have all the EPs except for Free Time and only the Ikea and Family Fun SP ... which version of the mod do I need to download? I tried to install the Apartment Life and everything was successful until I tried to extract File G and it would not allow me to. So did I download the wrong version or what is going on???? Please Help.!.